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How to use tactful in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Tactful means possessing tact; able to deal with people in a sensitive manner. Example: “He can be very touchy when you talk about his estranged son, so be as tactful as possible.”

More sentences with tactful

  • He can be very touchy when you talk about his estranged son, so be as tactful as possible.From the entry touchy
  • It’s true that I asked my opa some less than tactful questions on that visit.2020 September 1, Alexander Starritt, “‘We Germans,’ Alexander Starritt by the Author: An Excerpt”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry guilt trip
  • You don't really think the Creams will maintain a tactful reserve?1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VI AND XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry apple sauce
  • She dismissed Tiffy with tactful praise for her doormanship, and took Leo and me into her office.1957, Hildegarde Dolson, A Growing Wonder, page 117. From the entry doormanship
  • Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French.2017, Alexis Debary, Arab Nights: Post 9/11 Thriller set in Tunisia, →ISBN. From the entry throat
  • That wasn't very tactful towards poor Li; Li is right when she says that Fred is an egoistic lout.1996, Karel Čapek, “The Yacht on the Lagoon”, in M. Weatherall, R. Weatherall, transl., War with the Newts, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern…. From the entry needn't
  • If sometimes, in private, he grimaced over “the egg,” his manner to the donors and donoresses was all tactful thanks.1924, The Adelphi, volume 2, number 4, page 295. From the entry donoress
  • With exceptional capabilities and expertise unmatched by his peers—such as flexible thinking and tactful negotiation skills—Takasaki succeeded in accomplishing many missions impossible that nobody else could.2012, Mayumi Itoh, Pioneers of Sino-Japanese Relations: Liao and Takasaki, page 204. From the entry mission impossible
  • I didn't see the logic: how you would leave behind friends, family, a fixed address, even your books, until one tactful line in the Hatched-Matched-and-Despatched: Died Suddenly.2001, Philip Gross, Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998, page 65. From the entry unput
  • A wonderful (bad) new novel by our poetly cousin, Harty - I'm in it as an innocent girl of 19 called Fay: who was on the whole tactful but washy.1984, Ezra Pound, Dorothy Pound, Omar S. Pound, Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, Their Letters, 1909-1914. From the entry poetly

Meaning of tactful

  1. adjective Possessing tact; able to deal with people in a sensitive manner.

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Questions about tactful in a sentence

How do you use tactful in a sentence?
Tactful is used as an adjective. For example: “He can be very touchy when you talk about his estranged son, so be as tactful as possible.”
What is a short sentence with tactful?
“You don't really think the Creams will maintain a tactful reserve?”
What does tactful mean?
Tactful means possessing tact; able to deal with people in a sensitive manner.

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